Saturnalia

Front Street ain't no place for a boy
Who likes to talk ways that boys do
Unstrung, young, dumb
Comfortably numb

I am old as the star who bears you
Black as the bitch who wears you
Tears you, rips you apart
And then turns it around

Come on feel me
I ain't only one
When it comes apart
We're gonna have some fun, son

Give me five minutes
With your sweetest sweet tea
If she's fine as your missus
Then she's fine enough for me

A rod out the window
A suburban street
And I ain't slept since Monday
Jump in and ride we got deadlines to meet

People to use, lovers to break
Handful of pills, no life to take
River too cold, oven too hot
Bridge a one hundred and fifty foot drop

But there was a day I could say that I loved you
Early one evening I cut through Longview
Lifted you up and you turned it around

Here on Front Street
All the good girls and their boys know
Down in the mine there are diamonds
Down on the street walk the lifeless

And now I know that you're through with me
Can I tell you my love dead honestly?
Life is shame and your hands are stained
Walk in chains and change your name

Go where you go but forget me not
Take a memory too, if it's all you got
Chase your pain with a shot of rain
Dig with a spade or a razor blade

Come on feel me now
I ain't only one
When it comes apart
We're gonna have some fun, son

Come on feel me now
I ain't only one
When it comes apart
We're gonna have some fun, son

We're gonna have some fun, son
We're gonna have some fun, son
We're gonna have some fun, son
Young, dumb, comfortably numb

Give me five minutes
Give me five minutes with your sweetest sweet tea
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You go where you gotta go, forget me not
Take my memory 'cause it's

Oh mama, ain't no time to fall to pieces
He has arrived, He has arrived
Led by the grace of God go I
I don't know what they mean
I don't know what they mean and I say, ah, ah

Oh my love, now I can believe you're leaving
Seen through your eyes, seen through your eyes
There by the grace of God go I
I don't know what they mean
I don't know what they mean and I say, oh, oh

I hear the rapture's coming, they say He'll be here soon
Right now there's demons crawling all around my room
They say He lives within me, they say for me He died
And now I hear His footsteps almost every night

Oh children, this is where they come to take me away from here
I don't know what they mean
I don't know what they mean and I say, ah, ah, ah, ah

Love that way be done
Love that way be done
Love that way be done
Love that way be done

It's all right to take me down
Between the hook and the line I took
It's all right to drag the lake
And find the things you love

They won't wait in line to see me float
Asleep above the waves
They don't wait in line to bring me up
I've seen enough today

All my dreams stroll by unclothed
All my dreams roll by unknown

It's all right to kill the dream
You live for though it's not
Not enough to save you from yourself
The world she loved too much

No, this deeper instead, even people
And I believe there's a air when you love
All I see is a dream
That lies beneath the love

there's a way about her
She can make me do things I'm not to do
Cut the line and count to three
And morph into another

Start the wheel turning
Only bring me some things I've not seen
Hope from ragged mothers screaming
Born into another world

All my dreams stroll by unclothed
All my dreams roll by unknown

It's all right to take me out
It's all right to take me out
It's all right to take me out

Breathe, wake your lungs
I'm falling fast, no air will come
I think I've gone too far this time
I crashed the car, I crossed the line

Scream, no one home
No more light, no more me

Comes the day, call my number
Sight unseen, I am your brother
Waste not for those who don't want it
What I want is très verboten

Sleep, close my eyes
Wake the ghost, shake the lie
Shake the lie, shake the lie
Unchain time, unchain time

So long
I have begun to set the sun
I'll rise again to catch the dawn
So sorry that I had to run so

Dream, close your eyes
I was done, you're alive
You're alive, you're alive
You're alive, you're alive

With my idle hands there's nothing I can't do
But be the Devil?s plaything baby and know that I've been used
Your lips are cold, they suffer me
They drag me under baby into your suffering

Let your hands do what they will do
Stand inside, make your maker?s move
And your eyes don't look the same
They seem enervated, in denial
Cast like stones like you been rode for miles
Rode for miles

My eyes have seen, they have been shown
This is an occupation to stand alone
I suffer you, you suffer me
We are the Devil?s plaything into this reckoning

Let your hands do what they will do
Stand inside, make your maker?s move
And your eyes don't look the same
They seem enervated, in denial
Cast like stones like you been rode for miles
Rode for miles

Would you leave me alone, my sweet Simone?
If I lay on my back down below on the track
Remember the night, how I?d wade in the water
Be counting the stars and starting me over

They shine your eyes
Gonna make me rain, gonna make you rise
When I'm gone baby, don't you forget it
I did all I did just to get through to heaven

Got no mother, she can't find me
Got no father, he gonna blind me
Little girls might twitch at the way I itch
But when I burn it?s a son of a bitch

Hold on, hold on
Hold on, all misery gone
Hold on, hold on
Hold on, all misery gone

Make me, shake me, bleed all over
Going down to the ground in deep black water
Let's ride, suicide
Say what you want but you make it, don't lie

Don't let me down, baby, on a bed of hard thistle
Gonna die when I drown just to have it away
Those lies in my eyes
Push you down in the river till you testify

My mother, she don't know me
And my father, he can't own me
Little girls might twitch at the way I itch
But the way I burn is a son of a bitch

Make me, shake me, deep black water
Gonna run through my pain, gonna make it rain
Baby I'm gone, so don't you forget it
I did all I did just to get through to heaven

Hold on, hold on
Hold on, all misery gone
Hold on, hold on
Hold on, all misery gone

If you could hear me love
I'd tell to you my story
To you and only you
So love that you might save me

I woke up from a dream
I woke up, I was crying
I saw an animal
With eyes like mine on fire

I saw my own true love
She was there selling flowers
Has she forget-me-nots
White lilies or red roses?

And then from far away
Who's that I see come riding?
Upon a pale white horse
Come riding fast as lightning

Oh, if you can hear me love
I'd tell you my story
So that you might save me
So that you might save me
So that you might save me
So that you might save me